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ALBERT P. MAssnY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO,ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN SEED OIL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR USE IN THE EXTRACTION OF OIL FROM,SEEDS, dc.

. SRECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 29o,o83, dated December 11, 1883. v Application filed Novemberh, 1883. (No model.)

Be it known that I, ALBERT P. MAssnY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oleveland, in the county of vOuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented Fcertain mew and-useful Improvements in Automatic Scoops and Con veying Apparatus for-Use in the Extraction of Oils from Seeds and for other Purposes, of which the following specifi'eation is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention has reference more particularly to means for use in the extraction of oil from seeds by solvents, for removing the seed-; meal from the movingporous diaphragm or; strainer of the percolator, and conveying or delivering it out of said percolator after the oil has been extracted by the solvent distributed over the seed meal supported thereon, (see Patent N 0. 275,989, granted to F. X. Byerley.

April 17. 1883;) but it is applicable to the re moval of the extracted meal, or of other sub-- stances,fron1 any moving platform, and in part to the removal and conveyance of materials axis) into the said tube, trough, or chute.

generally, as well semi-liquids as dry substances.

It consists in an automatic scoop composed of one or more Wings or lifting plates, which turn or move-in a circular arc, in combina, tion with a conveying :tube, trough, or chute arranged at or near the axis, about which the said wings or plates turn,so that the seed-meal or other material gatheredand lifted up by the wings on plates will, when the latter a are raised sufficiently high, slide over the inner edge off the said'plates'(or edge nearestth'e and the wings 0r lifting-plates be brought successivelyinto action to scoop upjlift, and deliver the material into a central-conveying.

tube, trough, or chute, and (2) to place in or combine with the conveying tube, trough, or chute anen'dless screw or other well-known or suitable form of moving conveyer. These arrangements, and the use of them in connection with each other, constitute special improvements. By these means the meal or other material may be delivered into any suitable receptacle after being conveyed as far as may be desired.

The invention further consists in the combination of the automatic scoopand the conveying tube olntrough with the traveling dia phragm orstrainer of a percolator, or with any moving platform, so that the said diaphragm, strainer, or platform will be relieved thereby of its load. The Wings or lifting plates,in'scooping, move in the opposite direction to the travel of the material.

The'invention also comprises certain special constructions, as hereinafter explained.

The principle of the invention having been set forth,the best mode contemplated of applying the same will now be described with the aid of the accompanyingdrawings, which form a part of this specification.

Fig. 1 is a partial view of apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention in verticalfsection through the scoop transverseto the axis thereof, and Figs. 2 and 3 partial views in vertical section through the axis of together. Thefwi-ngs or lifting-plates-are preferably of sheet metal, and are riveted to the heads. At their outer edges they are bent 1 intoscoop shape, as shown at a, the rest being fiat. As shown, (see Fig. 1,) they are radially disposed with reference to the axis of the device. Theyterminate at a suitable distance from the said axis, so as to leave space between their inner edges, 12, forthe conveying-tube D.

The head B is supported-upon a stationary conveying-tube D occupies the central space between the wings or lifting-plates A. It extends through the opening the journal F.

It does not rotate, and is supported at the inner end upon the boss E and at the outer end by a stationary support. Thepart of thetube inside the wings or lifting-plates A has the top for about a third of the periphery removed, as shown at c, Fig. 1.

Inside of the central conveying-tube D is a screw-conveyor, K. The shaft of this conveyer is journaled at its inner end in the boss E and bearing-block L, to which the said boss is attached. Near its outer end it passes out of the tube D and isjournaled in the stationary block or bearing M. It carries a belt-pulley, N, for revolving it in the direction for removing the material from the tube.

As shown, the scoop is supported above and in close proximity to a traveling strainer, P, of porous material, supported and revolved in any ordinary or suitable way in or with the inclosing-case Q.

In Fig. 2 the strainer is in the form of an endless belt, and revolves independently of the containing-case, while in Fig. 3 it constitutes a false bottom to a revolving pan, as de scribed in the patent before referred to.

In Fig. 2, as the scoop has to remove the same bulk of material from every part of the strainer, the wings or lifting-plates are of the same width throughout; but in Fig. 3, as they have to remove more material at the circumference than at the center, they are widest there. Thus in one case the scoop is cylindrical, in the other frusto-conieal; and the center conveying-tube, which in the former is horizontal, is in the latter inclined upward toward the outlet.

The operation will be readily understood. The scoop is revolved at a speed corresponding to the movement of the strainer P, (which is very slow in extracting oil,) and in the opposite direetion to the movement thereof, as indieated by the arrows in Fig. 1. As the material comes within reach of the wings or lifting-plates A, the scoopshaped portions a take in each a small quantity and carry it up. After reaching a proper angle above the level of the scoops axis, the material slides across the fiat portions of the wings or plates and empties itself into the central conveying-tube,

whence it is removed by the screw within. The rotation being slow, centrifugal force has little or no effect upon the material. In

sired to use a screw or its equivalent inside the central conveying-tube, the latter may be inclined, so as to deliver the material be gravity. For this purpose the strainer may be inclined or the scoop may be made tapering toward the delivering side instead of toward the inner end, as shown in Fig. 3; or.both these means may be used.

It is evident that parts of the invention may be used separately as well as that modifications may be made in details.

The central conveying-tube may be regarded as a covered trough, and it is evident that an uncovered one may be used. 7

I claim the new improvement herein described, all and several, to wit:

1. A scoop and conveying apparatus comprising one or more wings or lifting-plates turning about an axis, in combination with a tube or trough arranged near the said axis, so that the material scooped up is delivered into said trough or tube, substantially as described.

2. A revolving scoop, comprising a series of wings or lifting-plates, in combination with a central conveying trough or tube, into which said wings or lifting:plates deliver the material, substantially as described.

3. The scoop, having one or more wings or lifting-plates, in combination with the conveyflat wings or lifting-plates, scoop-shaped at the ICC outer edge, substantially as described.

8. The frusto-conical scoop, in combination with a revolving platform or pan and strainer, from which the material is rei'noved by said scoop, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT I. MASSEY.

'itnesses:

J AMES N ADE, (Dims. T. CARRUTH. 

